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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1908, Berlin: A Cabaret - 1923: A Doctor, A Diagnosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peretz think this play will do, regarding anti-Semitism?
(a) It might encourage anti-Semitism.
(b) It will pour petrol on the flames of anti-Semitism.
(c) It will slow the spread of anti-Semitism.
(d) It will end anti-Semitism.

2. About what does Peretz think Sholem should write?
(a) What honors the Jewish people.
(b) What he knows.
(c) What the people are comfortable with.
(d) What he loves.

3. What did Vogel do when other projects came along, whiles she was working on Indecent?
(a) She pause Indecent to work on other projects.
(b) She pushed them off.
(c) She would switch back and forth between other projects and Indecent.
(d) She agreed to assist with other projects but not do them solely on her own.

4. Why does the playwright have some characters speak in perfect English and others with dialects?
(a) To let the audience know more about the characters without changing languages.
(b) To show where the various characters are from in the U.S.
(c) To show who which characters are poor and which are wealthy.
(d) To represent the various dialects in the U.S.

5. What does the doctor NOT recommend for Sholem?
(a) He be committed to an institution upstate.
(b) A trip out to the wild west.
(c) Talk therapy.
(d) Bed rest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vogel says she wrote the scenes, and Taichman made them come alive. Which scenes does she specifically mention?

2. How many years later was Indecent complete?

3. To whom does Vogel NOT dedicate Indecent?

4. How is the troupe first noticed by the audience?

5. What does Asch admit to the cast at their first meeting?

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